8 eCommerce Trends to Watch for in 2017 [Infographic]

Trends in eCommerce emerge from how customers shop, what they are buying, and how they are responding to your marketing. In 2017, if you’re not evolving to meet the needs of your customers or following along with the current trends, then there is a good chance that you’ll be left behind. A prediction by Internet Retailer claims that online spending in the U.S. will generate $355 billion in 2016, a number that’s expected to exceed $400 billion per year by 2018. In today’s competitive market, it all depends on how a consumer experiences your brand and those brands that can perceive, expect or can meet consumer expectations, actively engage shoppers online and via mobile, will stand out to be the big winners in 2017.

1. Programmatic Advertising

Programmatic Advertising is all about personalization. It uses a deeper database before deciding the type of ad to show to an audience. It’s about luring the right audience for the right type of ad at the right moment in time.

2. Automated Marketing

Email marketing, customized landing pages, discount promotions, easy-to-access shopping carts, and even the recommended products that are shown to existing customers is the new automated marketing. You can customize the store offerings for each of your customers and they get directly influenced by what they bought previously or clicked on during their stay at your store.

3. Artificial Intelligence Algorithms

Algorithms help customer segmentation and identification of patterns based on the customer’s browsing history. Humans still need to go in and double check the accuracy of the data but the AI Algorithms takes out some of the work for you.

4. Contextual Shopping

Optimized customer experience can either increase or decrease cart abandonment. Contextual shopping maps the customer journey based on their past orders and anticipates their needs to equip the shoppers with the information they are looking for while shopping on your website.

5. Mobile Commerce

Mobile transactions increase each year, especially during the holiday seasons. According to Gartner, mobile engagement and the mobile behavior of shoppers will skyrocket eCommerce-driven mobile revenue by at least 50% by the year 2017. So if a brand is not able to engage consumers via smartphone or tablet, then they are probably not reaching out to 50% of their audience.

6. Payment Options

Making different payment options available for your customer results in more conversions and sales. There are still many people who don’t feel comfortable giving out their credit card numbers to eCommerce stores. V.me by Visa, MasterPass by MasterCard, ApplePay, Google Wallet, BitCoin, and of course PayPal

7. More Pop-Ups

Pop-ups have never been something that consumers love. They disturb the experience while they’re searching and selecting a particular product or service. However, pop-ups and making a comeback and will stay for 2017. The pop-ups will be an invitation to sign up for the newsletter or receive email on offers and sales.

8. Faster Shipping Methodologies

Customers expect their product to be delivered to them as soon as possible. Amazon has a vision of crowd-sourced delivery system where regular people will deliver the products at fraction of time. Faster shipping will be a key in 2017 to keep your customers coming back to your store for purchases.

eCommerce Statistics

Smartphone revenues to overtake desktop revenues

By the end of 2015, the mobile share of global e-Commerce transaction was over 40%, according to Criteo and is expected to grow to 70% by 2017.

By 2017, US customers’ mobile engagement behavior will drive mobile commerce revenue in the US to 50% of US digital commerce revenue.

Big data and predictive analysis increase business margins

60% is the average increase in business margins and a 1% improvement in labor productivity for retailers who started using Big Data.

73% higher sales for companies using Predictive Analytics than those who have never done it.

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